Creeping Jenny
ലൈസിമചിയ നമ്മുലേറിയ
Lysimachia nummularia L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Plenty
- tall
- 10 cm
- wide
- 41 cm
Primulaceae
Also called Creeping-Jenny, Moneywort, Herb-tuppence, Creeping jenny, Herb twopence
Formerly Ephemerum nummularia, Lysimachia repens, Lysimachia rotundifolia, Lysimachia suaveolens, and 3 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- SubshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to SW. Siberia and NW. TürkiyeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 10 cmRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 0.1–0.5 m; NC State Extension 2–4 in
- Spread
- 30 cm to 51 cmRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 0.1–0.5 m; NC State Extension 1–2 ft
- Water
- Plenty: wet or constantly moistRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- YellowRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -30 °C (USDA zone 4b)Read from RHS and NC State Extension, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: RHS -20 °C; NC State Extension -40 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- LYSNUM, Siani lusg
- Portuguese
- Erva-dos-escudos
- Finnish
- suikeroalpi
- German
- Pfennigkraut, Münzkraut, Pfennig-Gilbweiderich
- Russian
- Вербейник монетный, Луговой чай, Вербейник монетчатый
- French
- Lysimaque nummulaire, Herbe aux écus, lysimaque nummulaire
- Czech
- vrbina penízková
- Swedish
- Penningblad
- Danish
- Pengebladet fredløs, Pengebladet Fredløs
- Dutch
- Penningkruid, penningkruid
- Norwegian Bokmål
- krypfredløs, Krypfredløs
- Polish
- Tojeść rozesłana
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Lysimachia nummularia (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.